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So synergy does not seem to work to well in Fedora 9 for some reason.  I found a patch that is supposed to correct an issue similar to what I'm seeing so I figured I'd recompile the source and see if it worked any better. 

Well if you haven't already checked it out please go ahead and have a look on http://groups.grid.org/content/unicluster for the UniCluster 4.0 Test Drive.

UniCluster 4.0 is a big change from our previous releases of UniCluster.  We went back to the drawing board and 'put our heads together' to figure out 'what is needed for a medium sized HPC cluster?'.  UniCluster 4.0 creates the whole cluster all you need is the hardware and CentOS 5 or Oracle Enterprise Linux (the software works on RHEL as well but we didn't focus on that for the Test Drive.)

4.0 is out and available for download.  It is a "preview" release.  "preview" meaning "beta".  It has a ton of additional features that UniCluster 3.2 did not.  Specifically, a provisioning system, build-in MPI/SGE tight integration support, IPMI, Cacti, Xen and more.

No, not the highly overused business buzzword, the pure software based, network KVM. 

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This article inspired me today so I wrote this

this article is from 2006 but the content rings true today....

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18700012...

So in my previous blog I said I used iSCSI to mount the VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_2-103909.i386.dd disk dump included in the VMWare ESXi install...I recieved a few comments about this as it is a heavy handed way of getting the support you need, so I figured out a non-iscsi way of mounting the VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_2-103909.i386.dd file.

As the number of supported platforms (OS and Arch) for my software projects has increased I have been using VM's as development platforms more frequently. Personally I like VMWare's suite of free products as a VM solution and with their recent release of ESXi, I am even more impressed.